Myotis lucifugus longicrus. [Myotis lucifugus Little Brown Bat]
At Wagon Camp, July 17, Walter K. Fisher shot one of these bats. Small bats were abundant here, but kept so much in the forest that they were hard to shoot.
Myotis yumanensis saturatus. [Myotis yumanensis Yuma Bat]
Yuma Bat (specimen from College of the Siskiyous)
Photographed by Debbie Harton
Common among the alpine hemlocks at Squaw Creek Camp, where they were seen every night, darting in and out of the flickering light of the camp fire. Here I shot one the evening of August 3, and four the evening of August 9. Late in July and early in August small bats, probably the same species, were seen nearly every evening at the temporary camps on or near upper Mud Creek. The species is interesting as the only bat secured in the Hudsonian zone.
Myotis californicus. California Bat.
A single specimen of this species, collected on Mount Shasta by C.H. Townsend, is recorded by Miller in North American Fauna, No. 13, page 71, October, 1897.
Vespertilio fuscus. Large Brown Bat. [Eptesicus fuscus Big Brown Bat]
Common at Wagon Camp, where Vernon Bailey shot one July 17, and I shot three the evening of July 28. Many more could have been killed if desired. In 1883 C.H. Townsend obtained it at Sheep Rock. The species is one of the commonest in the foothils and valleys, and is easily recognized on the wing by its large size and its character of flight.
Above excerpts from
Results of a Biological Survey of Mount Shasta, California
by C. Hart Merriam, 1899.
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